You can adjust the time to anything in seconds, that example is for a 10 second delay. If you’re inclined to travel the more technical road, you can also take time delayed screen shots from the Terminal using the screencapture command: Taking Time Delayed Screen Shots via Terminal in Mac OS X Another great thing about the Grab app for taking screen shots in Mac OS X is that you can include the mouse pointer, which can be helpful for some situations. You’ll notice Grab won’t be visible in the screenshot, which is nice otherwise the app would be kind of useless as it’d include pictures of itself. When you’re ready to start the screen shot timer, click on “Start Timer” and you’ll have 10 seconds to stage your screenshot before Grab snaps the entire screenĮasy enough, right? Here’s an example of a screen shot timed and taken with the Grab tool:.Pull down the “Capture” menu and select “Timed Screen” or hit Command+Shift+Z to bring up the timed capture alert dialog that you see in the screenshot.Once you’re in the app, do the following: Open the Grab / Screenshot app if you haven’t done so yet. How to Take Timed Screen Shots with Grab on Mac We’ll cover taking timed screen shots in Grab first because it’s more user friendly and doesn’t involve the command line which is a bit more technical, and then demonstrate timing screenshots with the terminal approach second.īoth Grab app (called Screenshot app in later MacOS versions) and Terminal are bundled on all Macs in the /Applications/Utilities/ directory, find them there to get started, or launch it with Spotlight (Command+Space) or the Launchpad.
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